Improvement in whhps



, y. 5f/Tm N. PETERS, FHOTOgLlTHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

'waited tapes atwi @Wirev .'Letters Patent No. 102,863, dated lMay 10, 1870.

w rMPRovBMENT IN wraps.

-44. The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part c! the same.

-`To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that LADnIsoN C. RAND, of Westfield, in the county'ot' Hampden and State of Massach usetts, have invented an Improvement in Whips; and I do hereby declare `that the following, taken in' con-A connection with the drawings .which accompany-and form part of ,this specification, isv a description of my invention sutlicientrto enable those skilled inthe art to practice' it. f v

'My improvementconssts, primarily iu a whip or whip-stock having vits body formedof or covered by a strip-of metal, preferably steel,7wound into a long tapering'coil or spiral, saidcoil being protected by an outer wrapper, braided, plaited, or sewed around it as in common whips. y z

The drawing represents .'awhip or', whip-stock emL `bodyng my improvemen'ga portion of' the vwhip be; f ling broken away to more clearly show the invention.

'a denotes the metal strip or ribbon, wound in spiral or quite abutting. i l

The coil may vbe wound around the body of, the

form, and with the adjacent edges of the coils nearly l whip, or mayitself form-the body, in which latter case I prefer to connet the upper and lower ends of the coil, by a stay-rod b, to` prevent elongation of the coil.

The coil is preferably made tapering, as seen in the drawing, and the coilforming`strip a may be wider at one cud thanat the other, the tip-end being the nari rower; or, the tip-end may be thinner than the opposit end, the increase of thickness from the tip-end to the butt being gradual.

Having thus made or covered the body of the whip with this spiral or coil, I encompass the coil with an. outer wrapping orcover made and applied as in or-` `dinary whips, such wrapper lying directly against the of a whip being made as heavy toward the handle,

and as light toward the tip, as may be found neces` sary or desirable to give it that poise or proper distribution of its weight in respect to its length essential in a good whip.

. v Two ormorc coils wound spirally in the same direction may be used, their edges abutting or lapping,

or onecoilcovering another, but I prefer a single coil. I claim a whip or whip-stock having its body formed of or covered'with stcfl or other metal wound in a vcoil or spiral form, whenv vsuch coiLor spiral is encompassed by an outer cover or wrapper, substantially as shown and described.

' ADDISON C. RAND.

Witnesses FRANCIS GoULn, J. F. BEALE. 

